Jayana Charles
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Sachin Dev:
What has been your inspiration and why did you choose this genre? Reason being I know from your blog (or somewhere) that you have written two more books a corporate thriller and one other. So why not publish the thriller? Do you think fantasy has better chances at success? All the best for your book. I really want to tell people I know a best selling author !!!!!
Sachin Dev
Hi Jayana! < your efforts will go a long way in getting to that "best-selling" tag>
So inspirations: While I’m heavily influenced by a lot of the stuff that I read – I keep myself updated on the latest in speculative fiction as I get sent books for review all the time, so a lot of my writing style is inspired by the authors I love.
The Ideas – well, they come fast and furious all the time. For every novel I have an “idea” file where I collate all those cool little nifty ideas that strikes me whenever (you could try Evernote app to tag such!) and I always do a “story outline” – and “character” outline – then divide stories into chapters filled with side notes what characters POV is featured and which major plotline would I write about.
It has helped me so far! Books on Indian mythology (For example, the legend of the Andhakan killed by Shakti – was a demon who could re-generate from every drop of his blood spilled on the ground. This caused me to start thinking about ‘rakshasas’ – as demonic creatures born of the union of the left over traces of Maaya that originated from the seeping wounds of a Goddess punished to sleep buried deep inside the Earth and spirits from the netherworld. Different forms arise depending on contact of the blood with different substances!) Different folklore and world mythology stories from books and the internet - they all help form different parts of my own world building.
Why not a thriller and why fantasy? Well, for the better part of the last ten years, fantasy is the only thing I've read. Naturally, i decided my first published book is going to be a fantasy adventure. No two ways about that! Each book, be it thriller or fantasy has a good chance of success if it's well written. So no, a genre doesn't score over others.
It's true in India - its probably a good time to write fantasy as people are getting introduced to this genre, possibly because GoT has become such a cult hit on TV! and mythological fantasy is something that has caught people's attention.
So inspirations: While I’m heavily influenced by a lot of the stuff that I read – I keep myself updated on the latest in speculative fiction as I get sent books for review all the time, so a lot of my writing style is inspired by the authors I love.
The Ideas – well, they come fast and furious all the time. For every novel I have an “idea” file where I collate all those cool little nifty ideas that strikes me whenever (you could try Evernote app to tag such!) and I always do a “story outline” – and “character” outline – then divide stories into chapters filled with side notes what characters POV is featured and which major plotline would I write about.
It has helped me so far! Books on Indian mythology (For example, the legend of the Andhakan killed by Shakti – was a demon who could re-generate from every drop of his blood spilled on the ground. This caused me to start thinking about ‘rakshasas’ – as demonic creatures born of the union of the left over traces of Maaya that originated from the seeping wounds of a Goddess punished to sleep buried deep inside the Earth and spirits from the netherworld. Different forms arise depending on contact of the blood with different substances!) Different folklore and world mythology stories from books and the internet - they all help form different parts of my own world building.
Why not a thriller and why fantasy? Well, for the better part of the last ten years, fantasy is the only thing I've read. Naturally, i decided my first published book is going to be a fantasy adventure. No two ways about that! Each book, be it thriller or fantasy has a good chance of success if it's well written. So no, a genre doesn't score over others.
It's true in India - its probably a good time to write fantasy as people are getting introduced to this genre, possibly because GoT has become such a cult hit on TV! and mythological fantasy is something that has caught people's attention.
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